[Samba] /usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate: ERROR: Record already exists

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 01:43:08 -0700 (PDT)
"basti.mueller31--- via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just did "systemctl status samba-ad-dc.service" and saw the service
> is running. But in the end of systemctl output there erros:
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]: [2017/07/18 10:31:46.130182,
> 0] ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:316(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]:   /usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate:
> ERROR: Record already exists
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]: [2017/07/18 10:31:46.142055,
> 0] ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:316(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]:   /usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate:
> ERROR: Record already exists
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]: [2017/07/18 10:31:46.154051,
> 0] ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:316(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]:   /usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate:
> ERROR: Record already exists
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]: [2017/07/18 10:31:46.167474,
> 0] ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:316(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]:   /usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate:
> ERROR: Record already exists
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]: [2017/07/18 10:31:46.177878,
> 0] ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:316(samba_runcmd_io_handler)
> Jul 18 10:31:46 server-01 samba[7222]:   /usr/sbin/samba_dnsupdate:
> ERROR: Record already exists
> 

> Whats the reason?

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with your conf files, but I
would be more worried why samba_dnsupdate is being run when you are only
trying to find out the status of Samba. There is also the problem of
why the records existing is being treated as an error ??

Rowland